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Requirements #2 (June 2001?) 11/33 • ‘Things like SCSI devices are missing!’ • Find ibm,vpd properties in the Open Firmware device-tree and pretty print them. Also print information about SCSI devices. • Time required: a few days.
SCSI standard inquiry output 12/33 00 00 03 02 9f 00 01 3a 49 42 4d 20 20 20 20 20 |.......:IBM | 49 43 33 35 4c 30 33 36 55 43 44 32 31 30 2d 30 |IC35L036UCD210-0| 53 35 42 53 56 4d 46 39 39 33 31 38 30 37 4e 34 |S5BSVMF9931807N4| 39 30 38 20 20 20 20 20 0c 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |908 ........| 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................| 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................| 20 20 30 30 37 35 30 32 31 37 32 00 30 30 30 31 | 007502172.0001| 32 32 30 39 50 33 39 32 33 20 20 20 20 20 48 33 |2209P3923 H3| 32 30 35 31 20 20 20 20 30 37 4e 37 30 37 30 20 |2051 07N7070 | 20 20 20 20 46 38 30 34 37 30 20 20 20 20 32 30 | F80470 20| 30 32 00 00 |02..|
Page 1 and 2: AUUG 2003 Conference Open Standards
Page 3 and 4: Current Linux reality 3/33 • Linu
Page 5 and 6: Current Linux reality 3/33 • Linu
Page 7 and 8: AIX reality 4/33 • Large, mature
Page 9 and 10: AIX reality 4/33 • Large, mature
Page 11 and 12: Example of VPD (lsvpd-style) 5/33 *
Page 13 and 14: Are we there yet? 7/33 • General
Page 15 and 16: Are we there yet? 7/33 • General
Page 17 and 18: Example of PCI VPD 9/33 82 10 00 32
Page 19 and 20: This should take a few hours 10/33
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Page 23: Requirements #2 (June 2001?) 11/33
Page 27 and 28: Snazzy SCSI solutions 13/33 • upd
Page 35 and 36: SCSI standard inquiry output 14/33
Page 37 and 38: Perls of wisdom 15/33 • Perl’s
Page 43 and 44: Missing bits • lspci: [...] 241:1
Page 45 and 46: More Perls of wisdom 17/33 • In J
Page 51 and 52: Requirements #3 (June 2002) 18/33
Page 53 and 54: C & shell (no seashores. . . ) 19/3
Page 59 and 60: Updating update-device-tree 20/33
Page 65 and 66: Rendering SCSI VPD 22/33 • Obviou
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Page 69 and 70: Enter lscfg • ‘Human readable
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Requirements #4 (February 2003) 26/
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Testing times (summary) • lscfg u
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Goodbye glib! 28/33 • The root-fi
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Cross platforms with sysfs 29/33
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Self-selecting modules • Modulari
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Future possibilities 31/33 • PCI
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Conclusions 32/33 • Started as a
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Questions? 33/33 ? Legal Statement
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